Environment

There are two choices: spend money on trying to reduce the problem or spend money on cleaning up the catastrophes.

New group reveals that hundreds of schools, municipalities, nonprofit organizations, and more are paying lobbyists who also represent the fossil fuel industry.

While it’s obvious that the Democratic candidates are much better on these issues than the four Republicans still seeking their party’s nomination, the media needs to take a share of the blame for so rarely bringing up the topic.

Exxon is represented on the ALEC corporate board, and has funded ALEC since as early as 1981, providing at least $1,730,200 between 1998 and 2014.

"If we're serious about a sustainable, just, and prosperous future, we have to put our money where our mouth is."

The administration on Friday reassigned Michael Kuperberg, a climate scientist who runs the U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP), which produces the report.

“It is unacceptable to have this happen in our community. It causes harm to people’s health. It causes harm to bird life, wildlife and marine life.”

After former BNSF locomotive engineer, Bryan Thompson, suffered injuries from an oil-by-rail train the company is arguing that some federal laws protect them from paying. Are U.S. laws and policies structured to favor the powerful rail industry over people?

This is not the first time that climate measures and aviation bailouts have coincided in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.

In Norway, a high-tech seed vault flooded from melting permafrost. In Montana, locals keep their seeds in the library.